Improving Opioid Prescribing and Patient Safety

Wednesday, December 6, 5:00 – 8:30 pm at Fireside Inn and Suites, 81 Riverside Street, Portland

Presenters: Elisabeth Fowlie Mock, MD, MPH and Peter Michaud, JD, RN 

Free program - advanced registration is required.

This 3-hour education session will feature an update on Chapter 488 and clinical content with a compassionate, patient-centered perspective, and will include “blitz” didactics, multi-media components, case-based studies and small group discussions. Presented by the Maine Independent Clinical Information Service (MICIS), a program of the Maine Medical Association.

 The topics covered at this session will be:

• The Genesis of the Opioid Crisis: “How We Got Here”

• Opioid Basics: MMEs & Tapering

• Legal and Regulatory Requirements for Opioid Prescribers

• Practice Transformation & QI for Opioids/Chronic Pain

• Harm Reduction: Naloxone & MAT 

This MICIS presentation activity qualifies for a maximum of 3 CME credits of the 3 CME credit requirement for opioid medication education found in P.L. 2015, Chapter 488, Maine’s recent legislation to address the opioid drug abuse crisis.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation through the partnership of Maine Medical Education Trust and the Maine Independent Clinical Information Service (MICIS).  The Maine Medical Education Trust is accredited by the Maine Medical Association to provide Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities for physicians.